Friday • 6 p.m.
LWU: Jr. LHP
Steven Farkas (1-6, 6.75 ERA)
AVL: Jr. LHP Greg Gasparro (1-4, 5.05 ERA)
Saturday • 4 p.m.
LWU: Jr. RHP
Cody Boydstun (1-4, 5.57 ERA)
AVL: TBA
Sunday • 2 p.m.
LWU: So. RHP
Tyler Morgan (1-2, 7.20 ERA)
AVL: R-So. LHP Jordan Carr (3-3, 5.48 ERA)
Leading Off
•Game two of the series will be on ESPN3 and Saturday at the ballpark is sponsored by Pairet's. There will be a T-Shirt giveaway for the first 100 students in attendance.
•Longwood is having a recent power surge with seven of its 12 home runs coming in April and 10 homers in the last 10 games.
•In April
Sammy Miller (.389) and
Ryan Shull (.364) are each hitting above .300.
Last Time Out
•After falling to VMI in Farmville the previous week, Longwood took the rematch by an 11-9 final Tuesday.
•The Lancers put together 11 runs on nine hits, led by a 2-for-5 day by
Sammy Miller, who put out a grand slam in the fifth inning as a part of a five RBI day.
•Miller's career game had him as one of three players who picked up multiple RBI as
Justin Mitchell drove in a pair of runs and
Grant Keller was 2-for-4 with two RBI.
By The Numbers
•On April 4 against George Mason John Gregory put together a career game to earn the win. In a game which George Mason scored 10 runs, Gregory tossed 4.1 scoreless innings with one hit and one walk allowed and struck out nine batters en route to his first career win.
•Ryan Shull and Jawan McAllister each went deep at Charleston Southern.
Shull sent out his first two homers, the first game one and the second game two, while McAllister hit a two-run shot with Shull aboard in game two.
•Jack Schnell and McAllister each homered in the home win against George Mason on April 4.
•Sammy Miller, Justin Mitchell, and Antwaun Tucker each got in on the power party against Radford.
•Miller's home run in the eighth inning of the first game in Sunday's doubleheader - the first of Miller's career - tied the game at three. Miller then tagged a grand slam April 10 against VMI.
•Nate Blakeney picked up his first homer of the season at VMI on April 10.
•Longwood has picked up 10 of its 12 home runs this season in its last 10.
•Longwood picked up its first walk-off win of the year when Nate Blakeney hit a walk-off single against Niagara on February 24.
•Blakeney did it again with a walk-off RBI on a fielder's choice in game one of a doubleheader against Radford April 8.
•Longwood has posted four quality starts on the season with Cody Boydstun posting three in his first season as a starter.
•Boydstun reeled in another quality start in 7.0 innings of three-run ball in game one of a doubleheader against Radford April 8. Boydstun finished his outing with five consecutive scoreless innings to end his outing.
•Sammy Miller and Ryan Shull have each swung a hot bat in April.
Miller is hitting .389 (7-for-18) with two doubles, his first two career homers, seven RBI and nine runs scored, plus seven walks.
•Shull, who hit .314 in April of 2017, is hitting .364 this April with 12 total bases and five walks drawn.
•Steven Farkas struck out a career-high 12 batters in 6.0 scoreless innings March 9 against Iona. Farkas is second in the Big South with 54 strikeouts.
•The Lancers are third in the Big South with 287 as a team in 2018.
•Longwood led the Big South with 511 punchouts in 2017, breaking the previous school D-I record of 440.
•Longwood was 3rd in the country with 9.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a team in 2017.
•Junior right-handed relief pitcher Eric Harp picked up his first-career Big South Relief Pitcher of the Week award for his dominance at USC Upstate on March 7.
•Harp, a 6-foot-9 relief ace, tossed 4.0 shutout innings with one hit and one walk with 11 strikeouts. In the final game of the series Harp tossed 3.2 perfect innings, striking out nine of 11 batters faced.
Big South Player of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Alex Owens
4/27/15 Kyri Washington
Big South Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/10/14 Aaron Myers
3/7/16 Cody Boydstun
3/20/17 Cody Wager
4/17/17 Cody Wager
Big South Relief Pitcher of the Week
Date Player
3/5/18 Eric Harp
Big South Freshman of the Week
Date Player
4/24/17 Antwaun Tucker
5/15/17 Antwaun Tucker
Scouting UNC Asheville
•Longwood and UNC Asheville meet for the first time in Farmville since the Lancers swept a three-game set in 2016. The Lancers and Bulldogs played a Saturday through Sunday series due to a rain-altered schedule. The squads were able to avoid a doubleheader in Longwood's senior weekend because school had already let out.
•Last season UNC Asheville took two of three from the Lancers in Asheville, winning the rubber match of the series, 7-3.
•Carmine Pagano is the leading hitter for UNC Asheville, pacing the squad with a .295 average.
•Brandon Lankford is the team's biggest power threat with 15 extra-base hits, including seven home runs, third most in the conference. Lankford also leads the team with 22 RBI and 57 total bases.
•Danny Wilson is second on the team with a .294 average.
•Freshman infielder Cody Wilson picked up Big South Freshman of the Week Monday following a five-hit series against Presbyterian that included a three-hit game.
•Greg Gasparro leads the rotation with a 5.05 ERA.
•Jordan Carr has tossed a team-high 42.2 innings pitched.
•Jordan Fulbright has the team lead with 33 strikeouts in just 31.1 innings pitched and also has a .244 batting average against.
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